Schedule Management 20Q Test

This is a randomized 20-question test on Schedule Management KA of PMBoK

Question 1 of 20

Which of the following statements is true about Critical paths

1. A critical path will always have zero float

2. A critical path has the longest duration in the network diagram

3. The Activity on node diagram of a project can have only one critical path

4. The length of the critical path indicates the maximum time that the project can take to complete

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Question 2 of 20

Barry is a project manager in Stoc Advisaries Inc. He is currently involved in a major upgrade to their customer facing application stock-advise. While estimating the resources, he is identifying the resources for activities at the leaf nodes of the activity breakdown structure and then aggregating the resources at summary activities and then at the project level. What estimation method is Barry likely to be using:

1. Parametric estimation

2. Bottom up estimation

3. Top down estimation

4. Analogous estimation

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Question 3 of 20

A project manager has just defined the activity list for a project. What is the possible process that he should execute next?

1. Estimate cost

2. Estimate resources

3. Sequence activities

4. Estimate durations

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Question 4 of 20

Tom is leading a project which is in the planning phase. And based on statistical samplings, he has determined that for a specific case, the optimistic duration estimate is 4 days, most likely estimate is 7 days and the pessimistic estimate is 9 days. What would be the 3-point estimate according to triangular distribution?

1. 7.5 days

2. 6.7 days

3. 7 days

4. 6.5 days

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Question 5 of 20

In a circus, there is a stunt involving swinging. There are many swingers whose legs are anchored to the swing and their hands are free for stunts. There are free swingers who perform many stunts and swing between these Anchored swingers. One unit of activity of an anchored swinger starts by holding the free swinger, continues with performing the stunts and then finishes with the anchored swinger leaving the contact of free swinger. There is a dependency in this scenario that an anchored swinger can start his stunt by holding the hand of the free swinger only after the previous anchored swinger has left the hands of the free swinger. This dependency between the activities of anchored swingers is of type

1. SS

2. FS

3. SF

4. FF

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Question 6 of 20

Barry is a project manager in Stoc Advisaries Inc. He is currently involved in a major upgrade to their customer facing application stock-advise. He has currently completed estimating resources for this project. What could he possibly do next:

1. Estimate costs

2. Get budget approval

3. Plan Human Resource Management

4. Baseline the schedule

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Question 7 of 20

Please refer to the network diagram above. In this network diagram, the free float for task D is

1. 8 days

2. 6 days

3. 4 days

4. 2 days

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Question 8 of 20

lease refer to the network diagram above. In this network diagram, the Late Start and Late Finish for task B are –

1. 6, 11

2. 11,16

3. 3, 8

4. 5, 10

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Question 9 of 20

Please refer to the network diagram above. In this network diagram, the free float for task D is

1. 4 days

2. 8 days

3. 6 days

4. 2 days

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Question 10 of 20

10.

In a circus, there is a stunt involving swinging. There are many swingers whose legs are anchored to the swing and their hands are free for stunts. There are free swingers who perform many stunts and swing between these Anchored swingers. One unit of activity of an anchored swinger starts by holding the free swinger, continues with performing the stunts and then finishes with the anchored swinger leaving the contact of free swinger. There is a dependency in this scenario that one anchored swinger can leave the contact of the free swinger only after another anchored swinger holds the free swinger. This dependency between the activities of anchored swingers is of type

1. SF

2. SS

3. FF

4. FS

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Question 11 of 20

11.

Which of the following statement is TRUE with respect to defining activities?

1. All activities must be defined while developing a schedule

2. It is fine if no activities are defined initially

3. All activities are defined as part of WBS in the scope baseline

4. Some activities can be defined initially and activities for mile stones occurring later on can be defined when the project is closer to the milestone

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Question 12 of 20

12.

Backward pass is a method

1. To determine the late start and late finish of only the tasks in the critical path

2. To determine the early start and early finish of all the tasks in the network diagram

3. To determine the late start and late finish of each task in the network diagram

4. To determine the float of each task in the critical path

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Question 13 of 20

13.

Which of the following statement is TRUE with respect to the relationship between scope and activity definition

1. Activity definition and scope base line have no relationship at all

2. Scope base line is an input to defining activities

3. WBS is part of scope base line and activities are part of WBS base line.

4. Defining activities is a pre-requisite to base lining scope

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Question 14 of 20

14.

Please refer to the above network diagram. The diagram indicates that between task B and task C

1. There is a lead of 5 days

2. Task C must start before 5 days after the finish of task B

3. Task C must start 5 days before the finish of task B

4. A lag of 5 days has been introduced for the start of task C

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Question 15 of 20

15.

Which of the following statements is NOT true with respect to activity resource estimation process:

1. Activity resource estimation is carried out independent of cost estimates

2. Activity duration estimate is carried out after activity resources are estimated

3. The output of the activity resource estimate process includes RBS

4. Cost is estimated based on activity resource and duration estimates but is fed back to refine activity resource estimation

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Question 16 of 20

16.

One of the software effort estimation methodologies uses the following formula to arrive at effort:

E=ai(KLoC)(bi)(EAF)

What type of estimation methodology is this?

1. Bottom up estimation

2. Parametric estimation

3. Analogous estimation

4. PERT estimation

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Question 17 of 20

17.

Barry is a project manager in Stoc Advisaries Inc. He is currently involved in a major upgrade to their customer facing application stock-advise. He is working on the schedule and has just finished the RBS for the project. What process is he likely to have completed

1. Plan Risk management

2. Estimate resources

3. Estimate Durations

4. Estimate costs

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Question 18 of 20

18.

Please refer to the network diagram above. In this network diagram, the length of the critical path is –

1. 21 days

2. 18 days

3. 13 days

4. 19 days

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Question 19 of 20

19.

Please refer to the network diagram above. In this network diagram, the Early Start and Early Finish for task C are –

1. 11, 16

2. 6, 11

3. 9, 14

4. 1,7

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Question 20 of 20

20.

Please refer to the network diagram above. In this network diagram, the float for task D is

1. 6 days

2. 2 days

3. 4 days

4. 8 days

Question 20 of 20